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Fitch Gazetteer of Washington County, New York, Volume 2 (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Fitch Gazetteer of Washington County, New York, Volume 2 (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Over three decades, from 1847 to 1878, Dr. Asa Fitch of New York
state collected a series of articles towards a history and
genealogy of Washington County and the surrounding region, intended
to discern "the date of the first settlement of the towns and from
whence the settlers came." This manuscript, part of the collection
of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, has
previously been available only on microfilm, but its contents have
now been indexed and compiled here into an annotated, alphabetical
list by subject, using the chronological form of the original
manuscript. In collecting his data, Dr. Fitch combined personal
interviews with the oldest settlers of the region and their
descendants with primary source material including family records,
unrecorded deeds, wills, cemetery records, early court proceedings
and newspapers, and unpublished manuscripts, most of these prior to
1850. His initial articles represent some of the earliest
ethnographic documentation of events relating to the first
settlement of this region by the Scots-Irish and settlers from
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Included in these
personal interviews were eyewitness accounts from individuals who
were the participants, or descendants of participants, in the
border disputes with the Hampshire grant lands that became the
state of Vermont, and the pivotal events of the Burgoyne Campaign
during the Revolutionary War. The numerous genealogical entries and
family records featured in this manuscript trace the growth of the
original families who arrived in the 1760s and the New England
settlers who arrived just prior to the Revolutionary War,
attempting to locate their places of origin, and carrying their
descent into the 3rd, 4th and sometimes 5th generations. The
complete contents of Dr. Fitch's manuscript are currently available
only on microfilm, with a separate name index. Just short of a
complete transcription of its contents, Kenneth Perry's The Fitch
Gazetteer organizes the manuscript's contents by surnames, topics
and geographic location, in alphabetical order. Entries are
annotated, citing the original location of the article in the
manuscript, frequently paired with direct quotes from the original.
Entries are also cross-referenced to related topics. Dr. Fitch's
original manuscript was divided into seven volumes, which Kenneth
Perry's indexing has compiled into four. Volume Two contains the
following: the Burgoyne Campaign; the War of 1812 (both continued
from Volume 1); counterfeiting 1772; elections 1777-1815, 1852-54;
the epidemics of 1812 and 1832; forfeitures; Revolutionary War
pensioners; Washinton County publications 1799-1825; accounts of
the assaults on Quebec and St Johns 1775; weather descritions
1777-1860; committees of correspondence; Charlotte County courts
1773-1786; coroner's inquests 1787-1810; criminal offenders
1772-1825; Shay's Rebellion; songs of the Revolutionary War; early
Washtington County recruits and participants in the Cival War; and
the 1861 journal of Lambert Martin of Company C, 14th Iowa.
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